The CCP released a communique outlining China's priorities in its next five-year development plan. Photo: AP PHOTO

China's Communist Party elite have vowed to build a modern industrial system and make more efforts to achieve technology self-reliance, moves it sees as key to bolstering its position in its intensifying rivalry with the United States.

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The announcement by state media came in a communique after a four-day closed door meeting, known as a plenum, outlining China's priorities in its next five-year development plan, which will only be released in full at a parliamentary meet

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